speed of light
Noun
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Noun
speed of light (abbreviated as c)
- (physics) The speed of electromagnetic radiation; in a perfect vacuum it is defined as 299,792,458 metres per second
- (colloquial, figurative) A very rapid speed.
- Einstein barrier
- Einstein constant
- lightspeed
- light speed
- c
- French: vitesse de la lumière
- German: Lichtgeschwindigkeit
- Italian: velocità della luce, c
- Portuguese: velocidade da luz
- Russian: ско́рость све́та
- Spanish: velocidad de la luz
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